How To Use Prude In A Sentence

A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
Received entomological wisdom holds that a ‘prudent’ parasite does not kill its host.
But if they are needy as a consequence of their criminal, irrational, or imprudent behavior, then it is not a fine thing.
more prudent to hide than to fight

Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
I read once that a prude is a good woman in the worst sense of the word. How good is good?
At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. Les Miserables
I started him in the mortgage loan business when we got the Prudential Insurance Company account in 1919 and he was my subman down in Florence. Oral History Interview with Alester G. Furman Jr., January 6, 1976. Interview B-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
These are mind-boggling questions for a person of normal prudence because in science, colour is simply light of different wavelength.
“but it would be, if not more prudent, since that word displeases you, at least more natural —” Around the World in 80 Days
They whiche unto the warre have given rule, will that the menne be chosen out of temperate countries, to the intente they may have hardines, and prudence, for as muche as the hote countrey, bredes prudente men and not hardy, the colde, hardy, and not prudente. Machiavelli, Volume I
He mixed, however, some prudence with his courage, and passed the greatest part of his time in a country retirement; alleging his advanced age, and the weakness of his eyes.
Allthough it could be just prudent housekeeping ahead of the expected cuts and the hootsmon is spinning it as a "rammy with westminster" article, we all know Westminster are going to be scrooge and cant afford it after Browns disaster. The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters
It is prudent we pause further reductions while the current situation is unfolding. The Sun
Funny how having daughters turns you into an old-fashioned, overprotective prude.
This is a very knotty question; it is like asking how far a dropsical man may be punctured without his dying under the operation; this depends on the prudence of the physician. A Philosophical Dictionary
The study shows that the females have a prudential attitude to divorce, and a tolerant attitude to outside marriage love, and they reject sex behavior before marriage.
It is only prudent to maintain and intensify that pressure. Times, Sunday Times
It is not my intention to review the relevant jurisprudence in this ruling.
While monetary policy is relatively easy to understand, with macroprudential policy no one knows how big these capital surcharges will have to be to restrain "overexuberance". Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
And so, in chatting and thinking and waiting for the engineer, Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans walked about beneath the forest of screws, whose gyratory movement gave their arms the appearance of semi-diaphanous disks. Robur the Conqueror
The happy or unprosperous event of any action, is not only apt to give us a good or bad opinion of the prudence with which it was conducted, but almost always too animates our gratitude or resentment, our sense of the merit or demerit of the design.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
This strength, this invincibility, this unconquerable identification caused the Prudential Insurance Company in 1896 to use the Rock as their brand to symbolize a defense from all obstacles.
I do not myself consider that the Strasbourg jurisprudence can be so neatly encapsulated.
It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
Behaviour with which she treats me, her faithful Lover, shews, that it is the prudent, vertuous, chast Galesia. The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
He scorned prudence in moderation at all times, and his behaviour, when the wave of Revolution at last carried him to power, gave point to the taunt of Thiers -- "c'est un fou furieux. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
When I first started in stockbroking in the 1980s, the City was full of partnerships, so ultimately the individuals concerned could lose everything, so they didn't bet the bank, they were more prudent. Luke Johnson: 'Capitalism is not a dirty, grubby pastime'
If we do that in the case of Bosnia, it is not so difficult to understand why a middle course of muddling through was originally chosen: it is the response that one would expect from any statesman or stateswoman who had a genuine desire to safeguard humanitarian values but no compelling national interest to become directly involved in a conflict and persuasive prudential reasons to stay out.
Education and knowledge without hard work do not necessarily guarantee success, and imprudence, indiscipline and emotional impulsivity contribute to failure. Dr T.P.Chia
After the prize-giving, the festivities begin again and the dancing goes on well into the next morning until hangovers, prudence and normal life kick in.
Next to him, Harriet Miers is a jurisprudential giant. Law
Similarly, although nobody wants to be called a prude, one could hardly deny that being offended by non-abstinence sex education, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality is objectively anti-sex (that is to say: unmarried, non-heterosexual, and/or kinky sex). Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
Born in Lisbon, he studied history, philosophy, and jurisprudence at the University of Lisbon.
In lieu of using polls to determine a candidate's strength among the voters, prudent observers will watch how the campaign teams shuffle their money.
The figures were expected by most experts, since May was the first month that the new prudential and restrictive monetary measures were implemented.
This was seen as a laudable attempt to be both environmentally and economically prudent. Times, Sunday Times
It's prudent to take a thick coat in cold weather when you go out.
The need to apply appropriate military capability prudently is paramount.
The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it.
The word prudent will have a very elastic meaning in 2012," said Stephen Green, a Hong Kong-based economist with Standard Chartered Plc. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Payment by result means lawyers are only paid on successful cases with inbuilt incentives for commercial discipline and economic prudence. Times, Sunday Times
A recent study by a University of Chicago economist supports my take on this Catch-22, concluding that preventive intervention is more cost effective, economically efficient and fiscally prudent than remediation once children begin school. Dr. Jim Taylor: Arne and Bill's Misguided Adventure: An Open Letter
Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
Her "Willisville" online community, a wildly inventive precursor to something like Second Life, was devised with partner Prudence Fenton in the early 1990s -- years before most Americans even had AOL dial-up access or knew what a social network was -- and lauded by Fortune magazine as one of the emerging Internet's most exciting companies. Kristi York Wooten: Legendary Songwriter Allee Willis Brings Her Party to the People
As I understand it it can all be sorted out, but you are — I suspect unintentionally and in good faith — offering a bit of a straw man due to your not distinguishing a few key concepts, such as prudentialism versus constitutional judgment, empathy for a legal injustice versus sympathy resulting in bias, and a judge versus a justice. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
This is a topic which highlights some of the difficulties which are created if the claimants' views of European jurisprudence are right.
He is considered as the architect of a distinct school of thought in the principles of jurisprudence and Islamic law, and one of the leading exponents of 'kalam'-scholastic theology - and' rijal '- study of the biographies of transmitters of ahadith, the prophetic traditions,' fiqh '- jurisprudence - and WN.com - Articles related to Emirates becomes first Arab airline to operate Czech Republic route
I would have thought that Gazzo was a conspicuous page in the Court's jurisprudence…
I still believe that's true, but it seems the day might come when cryonics is medically prudent.
Add hereunto the strange and wonderful quiet disposure of the magistracy of this city into the hand of persons prudent, diligent, and watchful, whom we have reason to pray for, and bless God for. The Sermons of John Owen
Oh, no, said he, he [Lincoln] wont enter into the Slave States to disturb the institution of slavery, he is too prudent a man to do such a thing as that; he only means that he will go on to the line between the Free and Slave States, and shoot over at them. Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln
After unloading, I decided it would be prudent to park in the lot rather than risk further calamity.
He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but he was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the deserving and never of the idle.
As to which concrete punishments should be annexed to which crimes, the judgment is a prudential one left for public authority to determine.
Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
They are all well-run, prudent clubs who survive and sometimes prosper year in, year out.
A woman might well conceal her condition for four or five months and procure an abortion, at the actual climax of which the abortionist might be prudently absent.
Since the tax refund is based on the taxpayer's marginal tax rate, it's prudent in some cases to defer deducting the RRSP contribution.
Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
Only the virtuous person has prudence, and the correct end is not perceived by anyone else. The Times Literary Supplement
Eugene, this post demonstrates the very real conflict between the First Amendment and the speech-as-violation jurisprudence that has accreted under Title VII and similar laws. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law
These include shaping the long-term jurisprudential reputations of Roberts and his colleagues. Kentucky.com: Homepage
Mr King counters that prudential regulation already draws such distinctions.
_I answer that, _ _synesis_ signifies a right judgment, not indeed about speculative matters, but about particular practical matters, about which also is prudence. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
But Solomon saith, Prudens advertit ad gressus suos; stultus divertit ad dolos. The Essays
The truly prudent person might decide to park the car for the time being in the garage to avoid the risk. Times, Sunday Times
With prudent money management you can beat the downward trend in rates and earn a good return on your savings.
What more reasonable than that this should be done, while living witnesses may yet be called, to prove or disprove the several allegations and assertions; since, in a few years more, such witnesses may be as much wanting as to prevent a canonization, which is therefore prudently procrastinated for above an age? The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
So, analogies to ordinary prudentialism fail to capture the decisions and, I think, the opportunities / necessity for empathy informed judgment that a member of the Supreme Courtfaces. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
Prudence dressed quickly and with Almira hurried to the girls 'rooms while Calvin hastened down the stairs to the scene of destruction. Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
Marampon F, Zani BM, Prudente S, Perlas E, et al. (2007) ROCK2 and its alternatively spliced isoform ROCK2m positively control the maturation of the myogenic program. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
And it draws his attention to the fact he should be more prudent and cautious when it comes to ticketing. The Sun
Prudentials, according to general rules of Scripture, may be of use in circumstantials, but will bare prudentials in substantials also satisfy either our God, our covenant, our consciences, or our end in this great work of reformation? The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
This is an undeclared tax on all users of the currency, which is being used to punish the prudent and enrich the spendthrift. Times, Sunday Times
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Independence Day (Blog for Democracy)
I remembered my imprudent sister and sighed, frowning.
Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
Jurisprudence has often been a catch-as-catch-can thing at Tulane and Broad, no more so than since the end of the thirty-year reign of District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., father of the singer. The Lampshade
In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic.
Experts are at hand to advise you on how to put aside a little every month and invest it prudently, so that the little pile slowly grows into an appreciable amount within a few years.
Despite this prudent, but politically damaging, platform, the party made gains, mainly in urban areas.
A summary of different approaches to jurisprudence and judicial decision making among developed countries.
Travelers to such destinations practice extra alertness, precaution and prudence.
Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371. A History of American Christianity
How many "nigger heads" we sold that day, singly, for the purpose of allowing the miners to taste our stock before they bought largely, I have no means of knowing; but fortunately for our reputation, Smith had displayed great prudence in his bargains, and his "cavendish" and "fine cut" were at length pronounced the best that were ever brought to The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
English and German, the principal ladies, and most of the foreign ministers; so that I may apply to you, nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Do they not gormandize, do they not what Prudence, do they not rob, each other. John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759
I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink. The Ragged Edge
I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
From the jurisprudence perspective, the judicial practice cannot and simultaneously should not obey the logic of the statute law, or official law all the time.
But macroeconomic events should never lead us to toss out the first rule of prudent policy: fund projects only when benefits exceed costs.
To protect yourself against any of these possible swindles you need to be prudent in your investment decisions.
Further, the overwhelming body of international jurisprudence favours the application of a subjective test.
Against that backdrop, it might seem prudent to take some profits and find another home for your cash. Times, Sunday Times
The productive had to bear ever greater tax burdens in order to support the growing numbers of degenerates, and higher fiscal exactions naturally persuaded the prudent middle classes to go in for practices of family limitation.
The poor in these paintings provided an opportunity for the prudent and beneficent wealthy to display their charity, such as in Beechey's Portrait of Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy.
Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.]
Making an immediate move seems imprudent and unnecessary.
La nouvelle jurisprudence criminelle, fondée sur les principes d'humanité et de justice, ne détruit aucune des dispositions réellement injustes et barbares, contenues dans cette loi. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
Some would call this coolly rational behaviour selfish, others prudent, but the one thing it is not is panic.
Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
At the same time, giving way to a just though prudently dissimulated resentment, she made a vow that she would never enter the gates of Castle Brady while the lady of the house remained alive within them. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
The prudent ratio depends very much on how banks see their requirements for liquidity changing in the near future.
Other goals such as dampening unnecessary exuberance and over-leveraging, and avoiding asset price bubbles can also be added to the objectives of macroprudential policies. Raj Nallari: New Thinking on Macroprudential Regulations
It is formed from the term race, which prudery permits, and it expresses once and for all that for which the instinct exists -- not the individual at all, but the race which is to come after him. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
Anon321: “But isn’t the decision to defer to other constitutional actors a decision based on beliefs and ideology — albeit of the sort that is usually called jurisprudential ideology rather than political ideology?” The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Legal Ambiguity and the Role of the Supreme Court:
The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
The meeting also resolved that there was need for prudent investment policies if the region was to develop economically.
La sage conduitte et la prudence de Monsieur de Champlain Gouuerneur de Kebec et du fleuve sainct Laurens, qui nous honore de sa bien - veillance, retenant vn chacun dans son devoir, a fait que nos paroles et nos prédications ayent esté bien receuens, et la Chapelle qu'il a fait dresser proche du fort a l'honneur de nostre Dame, &c. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
Prudence, common sense and wisdom make a better life. Dr T.P.Chia
In uncertain times, it makes sense to have as many strings to your bow as a well-provisioned fiddler or a prudent toxophilite.
And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
Is fond of his friends," continued the Professor, "and the heartier they are the better; might even be convivially inclined -- if so tempted -- but prudent -- in a degree," loiteringly concluded the speaker, as though unable to find the exact bump with which to bolster up the last named attribute. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
It's easy to confuse this prudent conservatism with adherence to principle, but that would be a mistake.
This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. The Declaration of Independence
The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.
When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
The jurisprudence of capital punishment imposes a tremendous burden on jurors.
For while adoption needs to be prudent, the extent of delays is inexcusable. Times, Sunday Times
In Act I he stages first an allegorical masque, the chief theme of which is prudent distinction between tangible and intangible wealth or values, then a stately dumbshow of the Rape of Helen at which he himself confuses Dictionary of the History of Ideas
To the delight of late-night television comedians, President George H.W. Bush used to talk incessantly about “prudence,” but in fact the term is a deadly serious watchword for the “realist” school of foreign policy. What Would Wilson Do?
It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime.
To great prudence, self-control, and judgment, he united the dash, daring, and readiness of resources which have always characterized the famous sailors of the world; and in the victory which made his name renowned in naval annals, he displayed these qualities in such a high degree as to deserve the greatest credit for what he achieved as well as for what, under great temptation, he declined to do. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
This has, indeed, long since been insufferable; although it ought chiefly to be imputed to the imprudent penuriousness of our own merchants and inhabitants, who, it is to be hoped, shall, through the abolition of this seawant, become wiser and more prudent. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
For the others, he was majoring in archaeology and forensics, and I was taking courses in law and jurisprudence.
The European seaman is prudent when adventuring out to sea.
Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
And as the human life is properly said to be chequerwork, no doubt but a person of her prudence will make the best of it, and set off so much good against so much bad, in order to strike as just a balance as possible. Clarissa Harlowe
We thought it prudent to telephone first.
The whole course of this area of jurisprudence is that similar functions can be discharged both on an executive basis and a judicial basis.
Ipsum quod suj causa eligitur quod omnia appetunt. quod prudentiam adepti eligunt quod efficiendi et custodiendj vim habet. Bacon is Shake-Speare
First, macroprudential measures cannot work by themselves. Times, Sunday Times
It seems more prudent at this time to make the investment in a new multispectral imager throwing yet more taxpayer money at this mess. Stimulus Money for NPOESS - NASA Watch
This would be equivalent to the worst form of fiscal imprudence - getting rid of productive assets to meet daily subsistence needs.
As much experience is prudence, so is much science sapience.
She is such a prude that she is even embarrassed by the sight of naked children.
They gave no quarter and Robert of Artois himself and more than seven hundred French knights were killed, while the remaining French beat a prudent retreat.
She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name. The Captive
Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
This last explanation seems decidedly preferable because the terms here used, particularly the word phronesis prudence, is not in its ordinary sense properly referable to God. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
Just look at the relative fiscal profligacy or prudence of those European countries going it alone versus those who have joined the EU. Times, Sunday Times
He therefore prudently forbore, that is to say, as much as he could forbear, to show any signs of his attachment to Rose, till he had full opportunity of forming a decisive judgment of her character. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
He will find similarities in a prudent club looking for stable management and steady improvement. Times, Sunday Times
According to prudential legislation, bank exposure to any single entity cannot exceed 25 per cent of its capital.
The difference between us is that you write like a bombastic lecturer and not like a prudent and circumspect lawyer.
It's all a matter of good, solid business practice; a matter of turning a spiritual profit and of responding prudently to spiritual blackmail.
It was imprudent of you to lend money to a stranger.
Love to God as the ground-virtue unfolds itself into the four cardinal virtues: TEMPERANTIA, amor integrum se pracbens ei, quod amatur; FORTITUDO, amor facile tolerans omnia propter quod amartur; JUSTITIA, amor soli amato serviens et propterea recte dominans; PRUDENTIA, amor ea, quibus adjuvatur, ab eis, quibus impeditur, sagaciter seligens. Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
They realised the necessity of compelling barbarians and provincials alike to respect the elementary rights of person and property; Theodoric the Ostrogoth and Gundobad the Burgundian were the authors of new criminal codes, in the one case mainly, in the other partially, derived from Roman jurisprudence. Medieval Europe
The inhabitants prudently declared for Caesar, with the result that the town was immediately granted the status of an Italiote city (oppidum Latinum), later to be upgraded to municipium.
Legally, an executor is a fiduciary, who is expected to act prudently and be impartial. New Heirs Face Confusing Tax Choice
But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
It may well be that what we are most needful of presently is neither more wars nor more laws, but more prudence in the making ofboth. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
This reliance on custom over jurisprudence was evident in Nazma's case.
At most it counsels caution, prudence and a little more scepticism.
When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails
I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
Despite this prudent, but politically damaging, platform, the party made gains, mainly in urban areas.
imprudently, he downed tools and ran home to make his wife happy
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We must balance interest and risk, achievability and cost, clarity of mission and support from others in what ultimately is an exercise in prudent judgment. Berger Speech On Foreign Policy At Csis
And I would advise any insurance company to be very prudent in issuing policies to any declining diocese of failing denominations. A shake-up is coming to the Diocese of Montreal « Anglican Samizdat
When the Supreme Court reversed Newdow on narrow technical grounds, Kennedy was spared from facing the consequences of his own jurisprudence.
Vesper:Ten million was wired to your account in Montenegro with a contingency for 5 more if I deem it a prudent investment.
If that is called imprudence, I wonder what would be called a thoughtful provision against the vicissitudes of fortune. Fantastic Fables
Granting that prudential concerns will vary from one person to another, one cannot imagine what a modern society would look like if the generality of persons did not have substantial prudential concerns.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
Thus it is prudent tax planning to encash these investments before returning onshore.
When your overtures are misconstrued, the prudent course is sometimes to apologise and withdraw.
` ` Friend Ranald, '' answered Dalgetty, ` ` I have read of these boons in silly story-books, whereby simple knights were drawn into engagements to their great prejudice; Therefore, Ranald, the more prudent knights of this day never promise anything until they know that they may keep their word anent the premises, without any displeasure or incommodement to themselves. A Legend of Montrose
I would add that in European jurisprudence and in domestic practice this is a strong rule.
It seemed more prudent to think everything connected: my card, the perishing family note, 47 and recent interest in the old scandal. SUMMER OF SECRETS
[The dishonourable flight of the Spanish nauy; and the prudent aduice of the L. Admirall.] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
After the war, he earned a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Brooklyn Law School.
On the jurisprudence perspective, the judicial practice could not simultaneously should not obey the logic of the statute law, or official law all the time.
Maiestatem V. sapientiæ & prudentiæ, omniúmque adeò virtutnm heroicarum indies incrementa sumentem, ad summum imperij fastigium, summas ille regnorum, omniúmque adeò rerum humanaram dispensator, Deos opt. max. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
Auditors have praised Greenwich Council for its prudent management of public money.
Jean didn't drink any wine over dinner and I assumed he was being medically prudent.
The story of the Prudential has stopped being one of irritating slow performance and become something much more important.
He is concerned with the well-being of every citizen, and is a kind, prudent, generous man.
In view of the Duchess of York's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision.
Happily your understanding of Second Amendment jurisprudence is as weak as your understanding of Bush v. Gore. The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
Invesco and Prudential - the institutional shareholders understood to have led the backout - are right to say that if energy prices are likely to be high for the foreseeable future then a greater premium should be attached to the price. Has Brown's reverse Midas touch upset the British Energy takeover deal?
Yet while he opposes new program spending, the professor agrees that immediate federal tax cuts would be imprudent.
We should be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness.
The morality involved in trials of Chinese traditional society may intitule"judicator's ethicality", while which emphasized by occidental jurisprudence intitule"legal or judicial ethicality".

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